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Kulturskolans ramar: Kulturskolelärares upplevelser av stress i arbetslivet
Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Department of Music Education.
2024 (Swedish)Independent thesis Advanced level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Music teachers are often exposed to high levels of stress which can oftentimes lead to feelings of dejection, anxiety, and depression. Teachers who work in Swedish Community Schools of Music and Arts have reported an increase in the levels of stress the last 5 years. There’s a dearth of scientific research in this area despite these reports. Hence, the aim of this study is to illuminate the stress-related experiences of music teachers who work within the Swedish Community Schools of Music and Arts and their description of the challenges associated with their profession. In this study organizational structural frame factors are explored to find how the frameworks can cause stressors to form, which in turn leads to stress. The results show how a variety of stressors were caused by different frame factors like insufficient time for preparation, working hours, organizational volatility regarding resources and policies, and municipal unidirectional communication. Some of the stressors were found to prompt adaptive responses, preventing the emergence of new stressors, while others were identified as contributing to a recursive cycle of stressor creation when the teachers expressed an inability to control the stressors. 

Abstract [sv]

Hög stressintensitet är något som musiklärare får uppleva dagligen och det kan i många fall vara det som orsakar nedstämdhet, ångest, och depression. Kulturskolelärare är en grupp som rapporterat en ökning av stressintensitet över de senaste 5 åren. Trots detta finns det väldigt lite forskning som berör just ämnet stress i kulturskolan. Därför ämnar detta arbete belysa musiklärares beskrivna upplevelser av stress kopplat till kulturskolearbete. I denna studie undersöks de ramfaktorer som beskrivs skapa stressorer inom kulturskolelärarnas vardag. Resultatet visar på att vissa ramfaktoriella ram-, regel-, och målsystem skapar stressorer som i sin tur leder till bildandet av stress. Stressorerna som beskrivs uppstå kan bero på brist på förberedelse- eller planeringstid, arbetstider, organisatorisk volatilitet kring förutsättningar och riktlinjer, samt envägskommunikation från ledning. Dessa stressorer bidrar ibland till anpassningar som förebygger skapandet av nya stressorer men i vissa fall beskrivs stressorerna bidra till rekursiva stressorskapande processer i de fallen då kulturskolelärarna inte har någon möjlighet att påverka stressorerna i sig.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2024. , p. 33
Keywords [en]
stress, frame factors, adaptive responses, Swedish Community Schools of Music and Arts, allostasis
Keywords [sv]
stress, ramfaktor, stressor, anpassning, kulturskola, allostas
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Pedagogy Music
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-5224OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kmh-5224DiVA, id: diva2:1827452
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Ämneslärarexamen med inriktning mot arbete i gymnasieskolan
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Available from: 2024-01-15 Created: 2024-01-14 Last updated: 2024-01-15Bibliographically approved

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